One of the 16 banks sure to be implicated in the Libor rate-rigging scandal is JPMorgan Chase. Their submissions to Libor consistently fell on the low end of the scale, presumably fitting for what was thought to be a first tier bank, but we don’t know yet what those responsible at the bank for submitting [...]

Let’s not let this little tidbit go unremembered today. Remember when Jamie Dimon came out and said that his firm’s little escapade in London cost them $2 billion? Multiply by four and a half: Losses on JPMorgan Chase’s bungled trade could total as much as $9 billion, far exceeding earlier public estimates, according to people [...]

According to the Financial Times, as of last week, JPMorgan Chase sold up to 70% of its position in the CDX.NA.IG.9 index, where the Fail Whale trades originated. I assume they are working on the remaining 30%, though CEO Jamie Dimon has said that the trades would “not be an issue by the end of [...]

I don’t think there was much reason to wonder about the relative toothlessness of the series of hearings with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. The banks own the place, after all, and Dimon is a majority owner rather than a minority one. So while he got a bit more roughed up today, ultimately the hearings [...]

The House of Representatives, in some cases on a bipartisan basis, is generally getting at the issue of JPMorgan Chase’s multi-billion dollar losses in today’s Financial Services Committee hearing with CEO Jamie Dimon. Clearly, Dimon is miffed by even having to be present for this questioning, an emotion he mostly didn’t have to show before [...]

So here’s me and William Cohan on yesterday’s The Alyona Show talking about that Jamie Dimon testimony yesterday. I have to admit a little shock at the focus of the coverage on the captured Congress and the relative soft pitches lobbed in Dimon’s direction. I’m wondering what people expected. This wasn’t the Senate Permanent Subcommittee [...]

I certainly recognize that the so-called “grilling” of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon today was more like a pillow fight, with more Senators asking Dimon’s opinion on things than trying to get to the bottom of what happened at the Chief Investment Office. I don’t know what people expected. For all intents and purposes, members [...]

I should have added one thing to my reactions to Jamie Dimon’s testimony. First of all, a set of anti-foreclosure activists disrupted the hearing at the beginning, demanding Dimon to “stop foreclosures now!” As that wasn’t the point of the hearing, this went mostly unaddressed on the panel. But then unassuming Sen. Herb Kohl decided [...]

I don’t think it was too much of a surprise that today’s hearing with Jamie Dimon was something less than stringent. Very few Senators bothered to show up with anything more than a list of questions and a pallid expression. The very structure of the hearing, with one round of five minutes of questioning, wasn’t [...]

The Senate Banking Committee hearing with Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase is scheduled to begin at this hour. A preview of today’s proceedings, including Jamie Dimon’s written testimony, is available here. You can watch the hearing on C-Span. I’ll add my comments below. …well, the hearing started with a bang. Foreclosure activists screamed at Jamie [...]

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon faces the Senate Banking Committee in a two-hour hearing scheduled for 10am ET today. He’ll be the only witness. Keep in mind that Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase has given millions to top-ranking members of the Banking Committee, so anything more than headline-grabbing and grandstanding without a real challenge to Dimon in [...]